Distributed HLOD builds always fail for projects not under the Engine Root

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Dec 4, 2024

In BuildProject.txt, to make relative path to the project outside the engine root, all paths contains “..” after action command directory. D:/dev/UnrealEngine-5.5.0//HLODTemp/f09bf0f5/HLODBuilder0 ...

Nanite Tessellation Artifacts With Landscapes

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Dec 4, 2024

There seems to be an issue with how Nanite tessellation and Landscape interact with two sided landscapes. When the camera's near clipping plane is past the landscape's surface the displacement of th ...

Global SkyAtmosphere and Clouds Issues (Cloud Shadows)

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 3, 2024

Sampling Cloud Shadows when rendering the Sky Atmosphere can incorrectly assume that the view is located at the planet's North Pole. This causes distortion in the shadows when using a sphere-shaped ...

Global SkyAtmosphere and Clouds Issues (Ambient Light)

UE - Graphics Features - Dec 3, 2024

Ambient Light on Volumetric Clouds from Sky Atmosphere always is calculated as if the clouds are at the north pole of the planet. Using a sphere-shaped Sky Atmosphere and Volumetric Clouds causes t ...

Crash can happen in FDetailLayoutBuilderImpl::Tick() when a category of UStruct member includes the "|" symbol and member is Tickable.

UE - Editor - Workflow Systems - Dec 3, 2024

A crash can occur when a member of a UStruct has a category with the "|" symbol and is trying to be displayed inside by the FDetailLayoutBuilderImpl class. This happens when there is a UStruct memb ...

The ResavePackages commandlet with -ResaveClass and -IncludeChildClasses doesn't resave unloaded assets

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - Nov 28, 2024

The ResavePackages commandlet can be used to batch resave assets. The ResaveClass and IncludeChildClasses options let one resave all assets of a specific parent class. The problem is that blueprint ...

Bindless Virtual Textures are sampled with non-virtual samplers

UE - Rendering Architecture - Materials - Nov 28, 2024

Texture Collections can contain virtual textures. There is no way to inform TextureObjectFromCollection that the texture is virtual, only that it is a Texture2D. This texture object is then sampled ...

The visibility state of on-screen stat messages is not restored correctly after entering and leaving PIE. This also affects other important on-screen messages like map warnings and debug messages.

UE - Editor - UI Systems - Nov 28, 2024

Currently, the ShowStats viewport option is automatically enabled when entering PIE and automatically disabled when exiting PIE. This forced disabling happens even if the option was enabled prior to ...

CharacterMovementComponent: NavWalking with high value for NavWalkingFloorDistTolerance can causes character meshes to be teleported up/down when crouching/uncrouching

UE - AI - Navigation - Nov 27, 2024

Context CharacterMovementComponent can be set in the NavWalking mode so that on the server the characters move using the navigation mesh as floor. This helps performance when the nav mesh is more c ...

Landscape / Volume Culling option doesn't work on Simplified HLODs

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - HLOD - Nov 26, 2024

There are options on both landscapes and HLOD layers that when enabled, performs the  culling of invisible HLOD vertices (parts of HLOD meshes ending up below the terrain).  The option works fine w ...